add up to sth
— phrasal verb with add uk/æd/us/æd/verb [ I or T ]
(AMOUNT)
to become a particular amount:
The various building programmes add up to several thousand new homes.
We thought we'd bought lots of food, but it didn't add up to much when we'd spread it out on the table.
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(RESULT)
to have a particular result or effect:
It all added up to a lot of hard work for all of us.
Their proposals do not add up to any real help for the poor.
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- badge
- connotation
- denotation
- drive
- hermeneutic
- hermeneutics
- how
- loaded
- mean
- meaning
- modality
- other
- pregnant
- put words in/into sb's mouth idiom
- significantly
- signification
- signify
- speak to sb idiom
- word
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